RON HENGGELER

June 4, 2007
George Lucas in San Francisco

In June of 2005, George Lucas and nearly 2,000 guests celebrated the unveiling of his Lucasfilm’s Letterman Digital Arts Center in the heart of San Francisco’s historic Presidio. This gorgeous 860,000-square-foot production campus was developed on the site of the old Letterman Hospital and it’s asphalt parking lot. Seventeen acres of the Letterman Digital Art Center's 23 acres, are devoted to a beautiful public park known as the “Great Lawn”. Complete with a fast-flowing babbling brook and stunning vistas, (including the distant Palace of Fine Arts as a centerpiece) the Great Lawn was designed by renowned landscape artist Lawrence Halprin. At the entrance to one of the Center’s new buildings is a fountain with a bronze sculpture of Yoda. But best of all, inside the park, standing over the Great Lawn, is a larger-than-life size bronze statue of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He stands before his Zoopraxiscope projector, with various frames of a horse galloping surrounding the top of the projector’s base. The oval plaque on the front of the base reads: “Father Of Cinema” EADWEARD JAMES MUYBRIDGE 1830-1904 San Francisco.........

Photos and text by Ron Henggeler

(This year, Lucasfilm is celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the creation of Star Wars. Many of the mailboxes in San Francisco are being decorated to look like R2-D2)

 

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